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DOESN'T IT SUCK WHEN PEOPLE JUST DISAPPEAR FROM THE FACE OF THE INTERNET
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macblo
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CloseHello RMN! A few days ago, I looked over an RPG Maker game called Lost Legecy, An Animania Story. That game was really fun despite all the issues it had and I was really excited for the sequel. But here we are, 5 years or so after the last post I could find from the creater, and know game. This makes me sad for a number of reasons. One thing, that was a really good game and while it need a lot of polishing, I still had fun with the game. Another reason this makes me sad is because to my knowledge, the creator seems to have disappeared of the face of the earth, as well as all the links to the inspiration of the game being down. Its kind of creepy in a way. Has anything like this happened to a creator that you guys love?
Yes. Sadly, sometimes people just move on to something new and leave the RM scene behind. I know of people who got into big time game creation (Kamau, for example - maker of Legion Saga series) and others who have just vanished.
Then there are those who live in our hearts forever, cut down before they could make that choice. They're the saddest ones, who we lost by horrible, random chance (or fate, if you believe death is a fate-thing.) All the could-have-beens and possibilities just, gone. And the friends who we grew and experimented and learned and laughed and gave feedback to and enthused with, just missing from our lives.
SO, yeah, there's been a lot of going - it's part of coming, I guess. People stay, people leave. It's sad.
Then there are those who live in our hearts forever, cut down before they could make that choice. They're the saddest ones, who we lost by horrible, random chance (or fate, if you believe death is a fate-thing.) All the could-have-beens and possibilities just, gone. And the friends who we grew and experimented and learned and laughed and gave feedback to and enthused with, just missing from our lives.
SO, yeah, there's been a lot of going - it's part of coming, I guess. People stay, people leave. It's sad.
People have lives. Sometimes those get in the way of forum activity.
Btw, I may leave for awhile. I'm trying to join either Peace Corps or Americorps within the next year, in order of preference. It doesn't mean I like video games any less, but I wanna do some stuff. I will try to return.
Btw, I may leave for awhile. I'm trying to join either Peace Corps or Americorps within the next year, in order of preference. It doesn't mean I like video games any less, but I wanna do some stuff. I will try to return.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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A former member of one of my game's teams commited suicide last month. It had been about three years since we worked together, and we didn't keep in touch, but still. Man.
Aside from people I've worked with, I'm not sure there are more than two or three people I follow closely enough to be able to tell the difference between "disappeared off the face of the earth" and "switched to hanging out a different RPG Maker website instead of RMN."
Aside from people I've worked with, I'm not sure there are more than two or three people I follow closely enough to be able to tell the difference between "disappeared off the face of the earth" and "switched to hanging out a different RPG Maker website instead of RMN."
Corfaisus
"It's frustrating because - as much as Corf is otherwise an irredeemable person - his 2k/3 mapping is on point." ~ psy_wombats
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author=LockeZ
A former member of one of my game's teams commited suicide last month.
Whoa WHAT?! That's awful.
The last I heard from the guy who made Lost Legacy is that he was working on a sequel, so it stands to reason that he wouldn't go back to the original and touch up on it.
macblo
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It sucks that life can get in the way of what we love to do, but I guess that the creator of Lost Legecy(Mayor Anime was his user name on this site) disappearing really made me uneasy since Lost Legecy was one of the first RPG Maker games I ever played. It showed me what a fan's love can really do, if given the chance. I guess even if you know something is bound to happen, it doesn't make it any easier to handle.
Tyranos
1115
Things happen. You can't control them and sometimes you lose touch with people. Whether or not it's on a good note IS something you can control though.
I wanted to play some games from well known yet gone makers but I don't like recording things without permission for a channel. Granted it's a free game and I'm not making money from it a part of me is too respectful to just pick something up and do an LP. That being said though...there are some games I miss dearly and it sucks that my new computer doesn't have the files on the hard drive. It also sucks that I cannot get into contact with those developers. Some honorable mentions will be listed below.
- Brick Road who did Kinetic Cypher I believe. I might have his name wrong.
- Mayor Anime who did Lost Legacy which was my first massive RPG that I spent 40+ hours playing.
- The brilliant mind behind Romancing Walker (name might be off). I seriously wish I knew that persons name but from what I could tell he/she? used a couple of different monikers.
- I forget his name but he did A/The Blurred Line. This MIGHT be Brick Road as well but I remain unsure.
These are all people I would give anything to meet and interview for the channel because they have some of the best development and production values in certain areas of their games. And those games are VERY EARLY games in the RPG Maker scene. I recently have been playing Illusions of Loyalty and it feels like the characters are written so well that a part of me wonders if those older games were ever a part of the inspiration for Aegix Drakan. I remember a lot of old games and there is nary a name you can throw down that I hadn't played as a teen back in high school or a little afterwards. I loved Legion Saga and until it was mentioned here I had a hard time remembering the name of the game or it's creator.
All I know is that these people are a huge inspiration to me and even if they are dead or just gone I'll remember how their games got me into the independent games scene and how they inspired me to make a magazine. Indiegnation Magazine was huge at my high school and it spread to other schools. It was my own after school project and I totally would do it again if I could.
I wanted to play some games from well known yet gone makers but I don't like recording things without permission for a channel. Granted it's a free game and I'm not making money from it a part of me is too respectful to just pick something up and do an LP. That being said though...there are some games I miss dearly and it sucks that my new computer doesn't have the files on the hard drive. It also sucks that I cannot get into contact with those developers. Some honorable mentions will be listed below.
- Brick Road who did Kinetic Cypher I believe. I might have his name wrong.
- Mayor Anime who did Lost Legacy which was my first massive RPG that I spent 40+ hours playing.
- The brilliant mind behind Romancing Walker (name might be off). I seriously wish I knew that persons name but from what I could tell he/she? used a couple of different monikers.
- I forget his name but he did A/The Blurred Line. This MIGHT be Brick Road as well but I remain unsure.
These are all people I would give anything to meet and interview for the channel because they have some of the best development and production values in certain areas of their games. And those games are VERY EARLY games in the RPG Maker scene. I recently have been playing Illusions of Loyalty and it feels like the characters are written so well that a part of me wonders if those older games were ever a part of the inspiration for Aegix Drakan. I remember a lot of old games and there is nary a name you can throw down that I hadn't played as a teen back in high school or a little afterwards. I loved Legion Saga and until it was mentioned here I had a hard time remembering the name of the game or it's creator.
All I know is that these people are a huge inspiration to me and even if they are dead or just gone I'll remember how their games got me into the independent games scene and how they inspired me to make a magazine. Indiegnation Magazine was huge at my high school and it spread to other schools. It was my own after school project and I totally would do it again if I could.
I'll see if I can get a hold of Brick for you and let him know you want to interview him. Unfortunately I don't think Lysander86 (A Blurred Line's creator) is around any more.
author=Trihan
I'll see if I can get a hold of Brick for you and let him know you want to interview him. Unfortunately I don't think Lysander86 (A Blurred Line's creator) is around any more.
He's around! He posts here very rarely
Only when his name is mentioned thrice in a row, in the middle of the night, 2nd Tuesday of the month, will Lysander be summoned from the depths of real life and comment in a thread on this forum.~
author=Liberty
Only when his name is mentioned thrice in a row, in the middle of the night, 2nd Tuesday of the month, will Lysander be summoned from the depths of real life and comment in a thread on this forum.~
Or someone threatens to 'remake' his game.
Tyranos, I was talking to Brickroad earlier but I had to go to college before I could ask him about you interviewing him. I'll see if I can catch him again when I get home.
Edit: Can you give me some details about your channel?
Or email him: I'll PM you the address.
Edit: Can you give me some details about your channel?
Or email him: I'll PM you the address.
Tyranos
1115
Oh well it's a channel that focuses on games. I do LP's and reviews. I also want to do a sort of podcast maybe over skype with developers because a large part of me wants to know what makes them tick. For instance when you look at game design two things stand out. Character design and of course level design. These two things are SUPER important. Kinetic Cypher is a VERY early game that boasts the best level design I have seen in a long time. I'm curious as to inspirations and even methods that developers use when they develop these games.
Maybe Brickroad spins in a circle, sits down, and thinks of lasers when designing maps or characters, either way I kind of want to know. You can find the channel here in all of it's lack of glory.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBt6kWl8Wsh9ymPhoIP58OQ
Oh also, I'm doing a remake of A Blurred Line. I'm thinking more catpeople, maybe an alien character you pickup at a mud wrestling fan service area, and mechs for enemies. I might even add a segment where you play a breast fondling minigame only to find out it's man boob. (Crosses fingers)
(For extra Lysander summoning power) I also intend to make Talan a "Belieber".
EDIT: I don't have a clue how to make a game but I hope that was not ammunition for a messed up little release during one of Kentona's "Make something in X days" contests...
Maybe Brickroad spins in a circle, sits down, and thinks of lasers when designing maps or characters, either way I kind of want to know. You can find the channel here in all of it's lack of glory.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBt6kWl8Wsh9ymPhoIP58OQ
Oh also, I'm doing a remake of A Blurred Line. I'm thinking more catpeople, maybe an alien character you pickup at a mud wrestling fan service area, and mechs for enemies. I might even add a segment where you play a breast fondling minigame only to find out it's man boob. (Crosses fingers)
(For extra Lysander summoning power) I also intend to make Talan a "Belieber".
EDIT: I don't have a clue how to make a game but I hope that was not ammunition for a messed up little release during one of Kentona's "Make something in X days" contests...
Brickroad has pretty much entirely washed his hands of the RPGMaker community as he finds streaming and YouTube Let's Plays to be a more fulfilling hobby. He did do a livestream of Kinetic Cipher a few months ago if you're interested in watching that, however. He talks at length about his thought process in making the game as well as his thoughts on RPGs in general.
http://www.twitch.tv/brickroadbrickroad/c/5622220
http://www.twitch.tv/brickroadbrickroad/c/5622220
Oh. I knew there was a reason I was subscribed to that channel. I get the videos in my subscription all the time. I should watch more of them.
on the other hand, there seem to be people that never leave and stick around forever, like some sort of fungal infection
*cough*
*cough*
author=Liberty
Only when his name is mentioned thrice in a row, in the middle of the night, 2nd Tuesday of the month, will Lysander be summoned from the depths of real life and comment in a thread on this forum.~
Lysander, huh? Wasn't he the one who...
VENGEANCE... Oh wait, that's Lysandus.
Tyranos
1115
I'd like to also mention that I left this forum for a while myself. Took me a bit to get my life enough order to start coming back and all that but I started by finding dhm and shooting him my skype ID. It was him who suggested I ask some people on here if I can play their games. But I was already posting reviews and downloading a couple. So good luck with whatever you all decide to do and don't forget to say hi to ol' Gunderson as it were when you get the time.
